Final UN report records oil and petrochemicals dominating forecast costs

The final UN report linked wartime priorities and restricted access to technological change with an ageing productive and infrastructure base. Restoring output quickly could conflict with the need...

The UN team urged careful assessment of equipment repair or replacement to avoid locking in outdated technology. It cited telecommunications reconstruction that mixed locally produced older...

The final UN report stated that recorded government reconstruction expenditure had been financed domestically. It linked spending priorities to maintaining oil production, industrial output,...

The UN team judged recorded reconstruction costs understated because they excluded cannibalized equipment and depleted spare-part stocks. These practices helped maintain production when attacks and...

Iran supplied future reconstruction-spending forecasts late in the mission, after specialists had departed. The final UN report said it could not examine them in detail and noted difficulty separating...

Iran’s five-year plan envisaged about 27 billion dollars from foreign sources for specific new projects. The final UN report distinguished this from investments already being undertaken and...

The final UN report described Iran seeking the return of trained personnel who had emigrated. It also linked planned foreign-participation projects with workplace training and longer-term efforts to...

The final UN report relayed concerns that pollution and contamination along the Karun River constrained regional economic activity and affected farmland. It identified environmental recovery as a...

Authorities reported unusually frequent eye, stomach and skin illnesses in affected rural communities. The final UN report stated that health authorities could not explain the exact cause, despite...

The final UN report described more than 250 kilometres of tar- or asphalt-covered beaches between Abadan and the Strait of Hormuz. Leaking tankers attacked during the war were considered a possible...